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Last week, the Sunlight Foundation won a nifty victory when the U.S. House of Representatives agreed to update its rules to allow members to use Twitter. You can get the full background from this blog post by the Sunlight folks. The House joins the U.S. Senate in letting its members use the microblogging service without heavy handed restrictions.

To celebrate, this week Sunlight released a new widget that allows you to track Congressional tweets:

And if you’re wondering, here’s a list of members of Congress that use Twitter.

On the local front, that includes Nancy Pelosi and George Miller.

Anna Eshoo? Zoe Lofgren? Where are you?